CHICAGO — Highlighting a bevy of the neighborhood characters, a new VICE Media documentary takes the world on a tour of Chicago's vibrant neighborhoods that surround Halsted Street.

Calling it a thoroughfare that captures "the highs and lows of the city," Chicago native Big Dipper, a rapper who now lives in Brooklyn, interviews a number of Chicagoans in the new 20-minute documentary for VICE.

Calling the neighborhood ethnically diverse and "the community of the future," Ed Marszewski says that he appreciates Bridgeport residents from all walks of life — "from the young gangbanger to...racist grandpa, to everyone in between."

Jim's Original at Maxwell and Halsted, P&G Shoe Shine in Auburn Gresham, Berlin in Boystown, the Altgeld Garden Homes and LPZ Studios, a haven for the music-making Save Money crew in River West, are also featured.